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Gen. Rob Bonta says he’s willing to negotiate with Paramount over concessions that would prompt him to drop the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The realization that he is merely a tool of the Romans thus seemed to prompt Farnace’s return to the family fold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
With prompt and appropriate medical care, maternal health experts say, women should not die.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
They may have recognized that participation could prompt questions or conversations about Sept. 11 that they had not previously had or did not wish to have.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Does he prompt a laugh that makes it hard to focus on ferreting out the mystery?
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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In my video, I share some prompts to get you started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
These models don’t make decisions; they carry out millions of probability calculations and pick the best one to answer the prompts they’re given.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
"To be clear, we did not use their prompts or proofs to prompt our models or direct our agents," Bubeck said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This prompts the question of whether we could just store more of this excess water for when we need it?
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
And she’d say, “Please stick to the prompts or I will have to give you an incomplete grade.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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What I had was a prompter, which I’m so grateful they gave me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Then, reading off a prompter in the back of the room, Biden turned his attention to the first soccer player honored as a Medal of Freedom recipient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
"Mrs. Castleman—Miss Marvin," said the prompter, seeing them; "now we are all ready."
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."
From Time Magazine Archive
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“My clerk,” said Pidcock; and this is the promptest thing I can remember of the Major, always excepting his conduct when the firing began on the hill.
From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington
"Thank heaven for that, for there are others here who seem in need of the promptest help."
From The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Victor G. Durham
That shifting logic has prompted two participating villages to voluntarily introduce hunting bans since the project started, added Nardiyono.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The incident that prompted her to quit flying — and turn down more offers to stay aloft — happened in a fixed-wing plane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nicola Ryan-Donnelly, partner at Fletchers Solicitors, which represents 22 of the 23 surviving children, called for the government to launch an independent investigation to address the "grim, voyeuristic culture" that prompted the data breach.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The bond-market selloff already prompted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to increase buybacks of long-dated U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
I prompted, needing to hear her say it.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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One parent reminisced about a group of moms who tried to throw a vegan sugar-free Halloween party at school, prompting a revolt from other parents who sent “over the top sugary treats” instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Leading AI executives and researchers have issued increasingly stark warnings about the potential dangers of powerful systems, prompting calls from lawmakers in both parties for new safeguards.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
A federal judge in Oakland temporarily blocked the deal, prompting Paramount to agree not to finalize the acquisition until after a trial or June 1, whichever comes first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
He put his arm around her, and she laid her head on his chest without any prompting.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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